Trump "said he was trying to run the country and the cloud of this Russia business was making that difficult," Comey wrote in a memo on a conversation they had on March 30, 2017. MEMOSEleven days later, Trump again pressed Comey about the issue. But Comey never committed to easing off the investigation, which continues to examine a number of suspicious contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia. Much of what is in the memos, most notably Trump's demand that Comey pledge his loyalty, has been known for nearly a year. Comey wrote that the president repeatedly raised the still-unconfirmed story that Russians have a video of him with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel.

Source: Daily Nation April 20, 2018 06:33 UTC